Phillips Offers Middle Eastern Photography Collection as Auctions Test Cross-Collecting

Key facts

• Phillips New York will offer eleven photographs from a Middle Eastern collection on October 8, including works by Helmut Newton, Penn, Sugimoto, Adams and Cartier-Bresson.
• Helmut Newton's Elsa Peretti as a Bunny, Costume by Halston, New York, 1975 is estimated at $200,000–300,000.
• In 2025, 25% of bidders in Phillips' New York Luxury sales came from Fine Art clients, and 37% of its highest-value photographic lots were bought or contested by Luxury clients.
• Ansuini 1860 Aste will hold Vini e Distillati in Rome on October 8 with digital catalog and remote bidding.
• On October 9, Ansuini 1860 Aste will hold an Open Sale of furnishings and artworks from Aldo Gucci's Roman villa at Camilluccia.
• RM Sotheby's will offer a 1909 Detroit Electric Model D, Type K Brougham at Hershey on October 7–8, estimated at $120,000–160,000.
• The Graziella Patiño de Ortiz Linares collection in Paris totaled €38.7 million, with 64% of lots exceeding high estimates; Fragonard's L'Instant désiré made €10.6 million and Watteau's L'Île enchantée €10.37 million.
• At Phillips New York, Yves Klein's Monochrome bleu sans titre (IKB 321) sold for $335,400, Fairfield Porter for $148,350 and Gertrude Abercrombie for $109,650.